Episode Report Card Miss Alli: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Tina Tumbles
By Miss Alli | Season 8 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.31.2004
We swoop in the direction of the immunity challenge, and are brought to a stretch of beach where Jeff is waiting. He calls in Chapera, and they stand before the Prince of Peach. He asks them if they want to know who they're playing against, and they say yes. Time to bring in Mogo Mogo. They all say hello to each other, and Amazon Rob strains for a view of Jenna M.'s boobies. Or, I should say, another view. Jeff asks Hatch if he's surprised at anyone he sees from Chapera. "Count them gone, Jeff, count them gone," he says, waving his hand dismissively. I don't know if he remembers, but he really wasn't openly contemptuous of everyone the first time the way he's being now. He was in interviews, but not so much to their faces. I think he's waaaaay overplaying his hand. He's also really not being funny, even in the way I used to think he was funny. "He hasn't changed at all, has he, Sue?" Jeff asks. She shakes her head knowingly in exasperation. Alicia comments sarcastically, "His team looks like they love him already." Jeff tells them that of course, twelve people is not enough, so there's another tribe. Come on in, Saboga. And the best part, by far, is the eye-rolling, tooth-gnashing grimace that overtakes Colby at the sight of Jerri. Or so it appears. Richard does look happy to see Rudy. Ethan, as they enter, is biting his thumbnail, because that's how nervous and aw-shucks he is. As has been the case every other time he has been on screen, I react to him with instant, instinctive hate. Everyone is also very interested in Rupert, who if the timelines I've heard can be believed, they've seen for several episodes by the time this all happens, but haven't gotten to know before.
Jeff asks the castaways what they found when they got to camp. Big Tom is all, "Nuthin'." They all acknowledge that they did get a machete and a bucket/pot, but that's it. Oh, and the map to water. Rudy tells Jeff that they can't drink the water yet, because they don't have fire. Nobody has fire, they all learn -- not even Mogo Mogo, even though Jeff openly says he's sure Hatch's team has fire by now. "So as Rudy says, the water's of no value," Jeff says. "Weeeeell," Amazon Rob interjects, and there's a great shot of all the Mogo Mogo heads turning at once to look at him. Sue says that she drank it. Jeff darkly turns to Rudy for a verdict on whether that's okay to drink the water, obviously expecting him to give an ominous warning. "Yeah," Rudy says. Everyone laughs, including Jeff. "So is it wise because it's the other tribe?" Jeff asks, touching his forehead. "Yeah," Rudy says. Snerk. Awesome. It's so good to see guys like Rudy again -- guys who are funny by accident, rather than an endless stream of Jons trying to be funny on purpose, which never works.
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